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A women’s only games, started in 2014, supports young women athletes to promote peace, understanding and leadership in the conflicted region of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Environmental football non-profit Football For Future have partnered with Nike to create a new Climate Champion Handbook for Nike athletes, educating them on climate change and its relationship with football.

Instead of assuming that sport impacts the development at micro and macro levels, there is a need to invest in more robust evidence and advocacy in sport for development, in order to support its growth.

Universal access, participation, and benefit is essential to the sport and development sector in India, and can be attained through dedicated efforts and an ecosystem-building approach.

Reshaping sport and social change requires educating the next generation of future advocates to be prepared to work in the sport and social change space.

This article calls for sport and development stakeholders to consider how sporting spaces can be reshaped to be inclusive - and better prioritize - the perspectives and needs of all gender identities.

Leveraged correctly, socio-economic innovations such as trade policy agreements play a monumental role in the developing the sport industry, as well as in development through sport.

A program for refugee families provided respite for refugee children’s mental health during Hong Kong’s COVID response.

Monika Kumari narrates her story, to highlight the importance of gender work at the grassroots level to increase girls’ participation in sports.